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Of Chinese bases, crickets, vaccines and nuclear submarines in Cuba

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Last June, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, stated that, according to the intelligence information available to them, China was strengthening its infrastructure for data collection in foreign countries, and added more specifically that "the People's Republic China had carried out an upgrade of its intelligence gathering facilities in Cuba in 2019."

The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal, adding that while Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with President Xi Jinping, China was negotiating to establish a military training center in Cuba, which would put thousands of soldiers 90 miles away. off the coast of Florida.

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The Cuban Communication Law shows us how journalism could be under socialism

16 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
One of the characteristics of socialist governments has been the obscurantism of information. For this reason, one of the challenges that Cuban legislators faced was to break that tradition, that way of operating. The law had to make it clear that citizens had the right to information, and that journalists should not find obstacles in the institutions to access it.

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The Brazilian electoral justice disqualifies Bolsonaro until 2030

5 min read JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ

JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
São Paulo
The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Brazil adopted a decision on the last day of June that will bring a tail. In a vote of its seven members, five of them decided the political disqualification of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who will not be able to stand in any election until 2030.

The magistrates described the action of the extreme right leader in a meeting he held on July 18 with dozens of accredited diplomats in Brasilia as an abuse of power – also due to the use of public resources and public television.

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The Argentine model of companies recovered by their workers

15 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
The memory of December 2001 in Argentina refers, almost automatically, to the corralito. However, at the same time that the banks were leaking massive sums of money; the former president, Fernando de la Rúa, was leaving the government house by helicopter in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis; and there was atrocious repression against a people that had taken to the streets to demonstrate; some of the most important experiences of popular organization that can be accounted for in Argentine history were also cooked up.

Neighborhood assemblies, barter, unemployed movements, cartoneros, or companies recovered by their workers, began to form part of the daily landscape and managed to insert dynamics of massive and unprecedented grassroots organization until then.

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Towards de-dollarization and a multipolar world

9 min read SERGIO NAVAS

SERGIO NAVAS
The dollar has lost its purpose as a "trusted world currency" and emerging powers are eager to build a less dangerous alternative. It is not a question of replacing the United States with China as the dominant force, but of establishing multiple poles, each enjoying its important sphere of influence.

Relatives of the victims of Juliaca in the Puno region (southeast) raise the black and white Peruvian flag on June 7. Photo: Kleber Sanchez

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Protests resume in Peru

9 min read CESAR ROBLES

CESAR ROBLES ASCURRA
Lima
The situation in the country becomes tense and resumes the path of confrontation and polarization before the call of various unions, social movements and left-wing political leaders to the so-called "Toma de Lima", a march that hopes to gather in the capital on next July 19 thousands of protesters to demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte and demand a way out of the serious political crisis that the country is going through and that is increasing day by day. It will be an attempt to channel the widespread indignation that exists in the country and that, according to estimates by different polling companies, borders on 85% rejection of the Government and close to 90% rejection of the Congress of the Republic.

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The original peoples of Argentina in search of reparation for the genocide

11 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
The trials against humanity for the crimes perpetrated during the last Argentine military dictatorship created a precedent worldwide, but they have also laid the foundations for indigenous peoples to promote legal proceedings against the Argentine State for genocidal practices. Encouraged by the processes that have taken place in the last 40 years, different indigenous communities have undertaken their own processes of memory, truth and justice, with which they have already obtained two favorable sentences.

The reconstruction of what happened in the massacres was achieved, fundamentally, with the testimony of the survivors, and their descendants thanks to the indigenous oral tradition, but the work of archivists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists was also fundamental, who provided evidence .

A Yanomami mother feeds her malnourished child. Photo: Urihi Yanomami

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The genocide of the Yanomami during the Bolsonaro government

11 min read CECILIA VALDEZ

CECILIA VALDEZ
At least 570 Yanomami children have died in the last four years "due to mercury contamination, malnutrition and hunger," according to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. After visiting the Amazon state of Roraima, the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, declared a health emergency for the Yanomami Indigenous Land, inhabited by some 28 indigenous people. Lula maintained that what he had seen was more than a humanitarian crisis, it was a genocide, a premeditated crime.

Lula and Dilma Rousseff at her inauguration as president of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert

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The great opportunity of the BRICS to improve world development

6 min read MARCO FERNANDES

MARCO FERNANDES
The BRICS countries occupy an increasingly important place in the world economy. In GDP by purchasing power parity (PPP), China is the world's largest economy, India third, Russia sixth and Brazil eighth. The BRICS now account for 31,5% of global PPP GDP, while the G7 share has fallen to 30%. They are expected to contribute more than 50% of global GDP by 2030, and the proposed expansion will almost certainly bring this forward.

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Lula turns around Brazil's foreign policy

6 min read JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ

JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
São Paulo
The presidency of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva celebrated its first 100 days on Monday. More than three months in which the Government is dedicated to forging pacts in a Parliament in which it lacks a majority, is very divided and with groups that are very hostile to the Labor Party (PT) and its allied parties. But there is an issue in which the dependence on parliamentary agreements is much less: foreign policy, an area in which a radical turnaround can be seen with respect to the mandate of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro. The Lula Administration resumes the tradition of advocating multilateralism and mediating initiatives.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and her predecessor Ma Ying-jeou.

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"You to Boston and I to California"

3 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Chance (or not) has meant that the imminent trip of President Tsai Ing-wen to Central America, with stops in the US, coincides with that of former President Ma Ying-jeou to mainland China. In both cases, there is a strong symbolic charge, but it also highlights the political priorities of the two options that are fighting to determine the immediate future of Taiwan.

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Marx as a solution to the climate crisis

6 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
“Are you taking any action against global warming? Have you bought ecological bags to reduce the use of plastic ones? Do you always carry a canteen to avoid buying drinks in PET containers? Have you changed your old car for a hybrid one?
I will tell you clearly: only with that kind of well-intentioned measures you will not get anywhere; what's more, they could even be counterproductive”.

With these provocative words begins the book by the Japanese Kohei Saito "Capital in the era of the Anthropocene" (Editions B, 2022), an era in which the footprint of human activity completely covers the face of the Earth.